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- <p>Day 00062: Friday, 2015 May 08</p>
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- I decided that it was a good idea to remove my legal name from my website after all.
- As such, I have redacted my name from all my pages (I think).
- If you need to know who I am, I'm still easily findable by performing a whois query on my domain name.
- However, I don't want to show up in search results for my legal name.
- I enjoy the freedom of speech I have here, and if I have to constantly worry about prospective future employers seeing what I write and refusing to hire me based on my opinions, I'll have to censor myself.
- I don't want to do that.
- I've already on at least one occasion censored myself because of this, and on at least one other occasion, I tried to justify my opinion when it didn't really call for justification.
- I'm done with that.
- There are a number of factors that will aid me in keeping my online and offline lives separate.
- For starters, my mother gave me a very common name.
- It's a nice name, but even better, so many other people share it, both first and last.
- Any search for my legal name turns up so many results that realistically, I don't even <strong>*need*</strong> to redact my name from this place.
- Second, the registry of my own country's <abbr title="country code top-level domain">ccTLD</abbr> refuses to allow registration of short names.
- By driving me away to seek a home elsewhere on the Internet, somewhere associated with another country, Neustar made it less likely that search engines will consider my website to be relevant to searchers in my country.
- This has negative implications as well, such as the fact that I won't turn up in results for things I <strong>*do*</strong> want to be found for by people of my country, but it helps me evade those that I would need to censor myself from.
- My currently-self-signed <abbr title="Transport Layer Security">TLS</abbr> certificate might drop me in search rankings as well.
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- Mistedwind forward a letter from <a href="https://sideshowbarker.net/">Mike</a> of the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>.
- In regards to the fact that the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> validator refuses to connect, Mike recommends instead using a different <a href="https://validator.w3.org/nu/">validator</a> on the site.
- This one actually works! It throws errors about things that are not actually errors (It doesn't like the <code><acronym/></code> tag), so I needed to clean a few things up, but I have now updated the link atthe bottom of each page to use the new validator.
- It also throws a warning about is skipping over my <abbr title="document type definition">DTD</abbr> declaration.
- I'm not sure what to do about that, I can't just leave out the <abbr title="document type definition">DTD</abbr> declaration and expect the page to still be valid.
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- As a side note, if you notice day 14 missing from the weblog, it's because of issues with <abbr title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</abbr>'s <code>highlight_string()</code> function.
- As mentioned before, this function spits out a mess, including heavy use of the &nbsp; entity and the <code>style</code> <code><span/></code> attribute.
- I had been going to create a new function to fix this, but had deemed it too much effort to complete.
- The new validator is calling me out on use of &nbsp; though, so I'm going to have to at least fix that.
- And if I am building a function, I need to build it to actually work, so I'm going to have to fix the use of the <code>style</code> attribute as well.
- I don't have time for this today though, so I took the page down to avoid invalidity.
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- I have so much email to catch up on.
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- It looks like things are going on politically, but I haven't had the time these past few days to pay attention to it.
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- At the time of writing this, Discover has not yet gotten back to me, but it's worth noting that I had to get this entry written up and uploaded before noon.
- I'll be at work most of the day, and won't have time to write this later.
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